SENTENCE COMMUTED
(Eeceived December 13, 2 p.m.) SHANGHAI, December 12. The last official act of the British Minister, Sir Miles Lampson, prior to his departure to assume the High Commissionership of Egypt, was the granting of a reprieve, commuting the death sentence to life imprisonment, in tho case of Mrs. Katherine Hadley, the first j British woman to be sentenced to death in China, following the fatal stabbing of her lover, Captain Walter Youngs, a mariner. I (Received December 13, 2.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. I Cabinet communted the death sentence on Eric Jones to life imprisonment, for wife murder at Cessnock on July 15. . j
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 142, 13 December 1933, Page 10
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106SENTENCE COMMUTED Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 142, 13 December 1933, Page 10
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